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Video surfaces of new chokehold incident

As mourners paid respects Wednesday night to a Staten Island man who died last week after an apparent chokehold by police, a new cellphone video surfaced showing New York City police using the banned maneuver on a man in the subway.

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Video surfaces of new chokehold incident

USA Today
Published 10:59 a.m. MT July 24, 2014

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Natalie DiBlasio hosts USA NOW on outrage over NYPD officers' use of chokeholds.

A photo taken from video shows a man being held in a chokehold by police.(Photo: Video)

As mourners paid respects Wednesday night to a Staten Island man who died last week after an apparent chokehold by police, a new cellphone video surfaced showing New York City police using the banned maneuver on a man in the subway.

In the two minute and 35 second video shot July 14, two officers are seen attempting to subdue the man as he resists arrest in a Harlem subway station, and one officer punches the man several times as onlookers react. After police cuff the man and he stands, blood is visible on the tile floor. The man also squeezes his eyes shut. The New York Daily News reported the man also had been pepper sprayed.

A Harlem minister said the person who shot the video passed it on to him and he circulated it via Facebook in an attempt to round up witnesses, the Daily News reported.

The man, identified by the Daily News as 22-year-old Ronalds Downs, refused medical treatment once he arrived at a police station house.

The man was held due to failure to pay the fare and criminal trespass, as well as resisting arrest, according to the NYPD press office. The video is being reviewed by internal affairs, the press office said.

In the Staten Island case, 43-year-old Eric Garner was pronounced dead at a hospital after an apparent chokehold on the sidewalk. Police said they suspected Garner of selling untaxed cigarettes.